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My first attempt to create wolrd-map for my book whit Gimp

Well here is my first attempt to create world map for my book... Name of the world is preliminary Milodon, although I have names for the provinces they are not showed in this map because it is just blank at moment.
So feel free to give me critique and advice on that how I could make northern areas appear more like Polar or snowy. Also I would like to make desert areas to look more like deserts...

This map is made by Gimb using RobA's Artistic Regional Map in Gimp Tutorial - Revised Presentation as reference...